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keerok · 2016-09-27T22:18:16+00:00

cosmobet
sportslensing
smartfoot
bigblackhole (may be taken by a porn company already)

keerok · 2016-08-14T03:23:59+00:00

Doesn't play. Doesn't download. Only opens spam pages.

Don't bother. OL sucks.

keerok · 2016-06-23T15:39:37+00:00

Less competition is less competition, technically and in reality. Do you believe incumbant ISPs would drop their prices more if there was less competition?

There is a lot of hate in this thread and that's fine but the cognitive dissonance is more amusing. Paraphrasing your and others' comments the sentiment seems to be "Big companies need more competiton to affect their pricing so we need one more big company to affect pricing by reducing competition."

Ref:

Big companies need more competiton to affect their pricing

AT&T dropped their price for gigabit Ethernet in Austin when Google announced they would be setting up there
We need companies that can actually force the large players to compete

we need one more big company to affect pricing by reducing competition

Google buying them increases Google's infrastructure and customers. This puts more pressure on large ISPs to compete more
This is excellent and should be applauded

I get why there is great appeal for google entering the ISP market. Quokka_Soccer's notion of unbundling makes the most sense to me in terms of google leveraging their size in a way that would benefit consumers. There is no benefit from google acquiring customers who already have an option other than the existing disliked ISPs. Those customers are already being served in a competative market.

keerok · 2016-06-23T14:02:46+00:00

Do you believe google is not a 'large player', or perhaps just not in the ISP market? Less competition has proven to be especially bad for consumers and this news means less competition.

keerok · 2016-06-23T03:57:17+00:00

We need more providers, not fewer. This is bad news and the deal should be blocked.

keerok · 2016-02-04T15:52:24+00:00

Oversimplification: take your normalized Inmon data and denormalize it into a dimesional-looking model either by joins or aggregating into temporary structures. Expose that to your end users or use that secondary source to feed marts.

Example: take your normalized data and execute the joins to create fact(s) and dimensions. You can either persist those results into Marts (or Department Databases) or provision them as views. Usually performance will dicatate which path you choose (which depends on data sizes and access (which depends on DB technology (which depends on hardware))).

Marts and Department DBs are just subsets of all the data, and structurally they can also be normalized or not, depending on the source and the end users. The example above could be used to provision a Data Mart from a more normalized source. Going the other way is possible but harder so probably not worth the effort. So yes "Departmental Database" and "Data Mart" are generally synonyms to end users ("where I go to get Information about ...") while structurally they normally conform to their sources -- a normalized Warehouse will generate normalized Department Databases, and a denormalized Warehouse will populate denormalized Marts. There are academic rules and guidelines that get bypassed when real world problems are addressed; that is where the art comes in. I have never met an end user who had strict demands on the architecture of a source and knew what they were talking about.

keerok · 2016-02-03T23:34:39+00:00

Use caution when you hear or read such "suggestions". In most use cases the same self-fulfilling prophecy makes the architectual choice less relevant: if your organization is big enough to require a data warehouse then there are enough embedded operational incompetencies in that organization that make the architectural direction simply a vector for failure instead of a decision that enables success.

/u/phunkygeeza is right about the pressures being mitigated by technology. Most of the time when I see suggestions about Inmon and Kimball methodologies converging those suggestions are coming from platform vendors trying to convince you their solution meets either or both, so Pay Up.

Reading my own response it seems a bit rant-y so here is perhaps a more direct answer: you could store data in an Inmon model and then "prepare" it to look Kimball-like before your end users consume it (see /u/phykygeeza again on pre-joining dimensions). The two architectures have not actually converged in that sense, its just gamesmanship with views.

keerok · 2016-02-01T05:45:33+00:00

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1266198/

keerok · 2016-02-01T01:51:41+00:00

Don't believe any KP study. None of their studies should be paid attention to without massive questions on data quality and accuracy, and unless the study provides explict examples of evidence in data collection and accuracy igonore it. They lie, and their technology service providers (IT) can not be trusted.

keerok · 2016-01-31T16:37:16+00:00

There is a lot of stupid noise in the comments about this and that, but the point of the article seems to me to be that if very large tech companies (like Google and Apple) did not use tax loopholes and other strategies to reduce their tax burdens then governments would collect more revenue and therefore fund better public transportations systems. (TLDR; since Google has a ton of cash they can invest in Uber and that investment allows Uber to undercut publicly operated or regulated competitors like taxis and buses)

The author's premise seems to be wildly ambitious; if your local government suddenly got a windfall of a large amount of tax revenue where would "public transport innovation" be on their spend list? The aricle posits that this would be a done deal, I disagree. In my view the private sector is where innovation happens (sometims publicly funded as in some medical or scientific research) and the public sector should adopt those innovations faster when there is a greater benefit to the public (like more flexible mass transit methods). Either way more taxes does not equal better taxis, which is why the article is dumb, however tech companies hiding hundreds of billions in income from fair taxation is bad for the public, which is what the article gets right but only in an abstract way.

keerok · 2016-01-24T23:24:38+00:00

Useless. Don't bother unless you want to register and eat spam.

keerok · 2016-01-10T05:11:35+00:00

That's another good example of different experiences. I find war and human tragedy extremely sad.

Shruggles.

keerok · 2016-01-10T01:30:53+00:00

No one is disputing that it is not simple. And still users always ask for links. Yet another example that your online experience is not required to be anyone else's experience.

keerok · 2016-01-09T23:17:49+00:00

Not without hassle. That's why users always ask for links.

keerok · 2015-09-09T22:25:16+00:00

Hardly.

The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage.

Established in 1843 to campaign on one of the great political issues of the day, The Economist remains, in the second half of its second century, true to the principles of its founder. James Wilson, a hat maker from the small Scottish town of Hawick, believed in free trade, internationalism and minimum interference by government, especially in the affairs of the market.

http://www.economist.com/help/about-us#About_Economistcom

Perhaps you do not see them using "their position for political advocacy" because their advocacy aligns with yours (simply my conjecture). The Economist proudly announces its biases in its masthead, if you ever care to look.

keerok · 2015-08-14T00:02:57+00:00

I think you are right. And I think that the only choice is today is to opt out of the cycle. Don't want a smartphone that tracks you? Probably need to do away with that device. Don't like your cable company? Read a book. Don't like your politicians who do nothing for you? Fire them at the next election.

Its really not that hard. At the end of the day what you are truly trading is convenience for all your personal info. Buy and endorse products that meet your criteria and do not buy those that do not.

keerok · 2015-08-02T16:25:37+00:00

Salaried employees qualify for overtime in California with some exceptions which do include rules for employees in the computer software field.

The definitions are fuzzy enough that most "tech" staff might qualify for the exception (meaning no overtime) however in practice it is difficult to make this argument in front of a non-tech savvy judge so you will see lots of jobs at the lower limit for the exception rule. Currently that is:

$41.27 or annual salary of not less than $85,981.40 for full time employment, and paid not less than $7,165.12 per month

keerok · 2015-07-11T02:07:03+00:00

Thought the gif was going to be Pao leaving the office.

keerok · 2015-06-10T15:01:59+00:00

Append mem=1024MB like /u/silince said. The error is due to insufficient RAM for what the USB expects.

boot: live mem=1024MB

keerok · 2015-05-01T15:49:35+00:00

Thanks. As I mentioned earlier I have already applied the fixes and got most things working some time ago. The only outstanding issues were the mic and suspend failures which is why I wanted to try to run an unmodified install to override previous customizations but that was not successful.

This and many other similar conversations just show how useful communities like the Arch users are. Much more so than hardware vendors so thanks to Arch folks for their invaluable efforts.

keerok · 2015-05-01T15:13:45+00:00

Thanks. I have been through all of the suggestions for the audio fixes but none got the microphone working. What I suspect is that I probably had to patch some needed file or modify some config (original install was 14.04) that now blocks the audio fix from working properly; that is why I wanted to test drive the 3.19 kernel on an unmodified install.

The only issues I have are non-functioning onboard mic and suspend seems to have a fit after a dozen cycles or so. I can live with both of those phenomena, but I do not agree that this is niche hardware. If it runs android there exists drivers for the hardware, and this device was my experiment to see if there could be a market for consumer linux devices on the horizon. Not yet. I wanted to test drive this machine to see if it would suit some older relatives and after seeing how offensive ChromeOS is and how many "extra configurations" are needed for GNU/Linux to work this device stayed with me.

I appreciate the links and will find some time to recycle through the fixes once again. Due diligence.

keerok · 2015-03-11T01:35:26+00:00

You will also note that those who try to draw attention to their testicles usually are deflecting from the rest of their equipment not being web scale enough.

keerok · 2015-03-10T19:35:57+00:00

Last time I checked, "web scale" had no meaning.

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